Kabir Humayun: Google, the tech giant, celebrated its 20th birthday yesterday with a new Google Doodle marking the special occasion. The company, founded 20 years ago, marked the event with a Google Doodle around the world, reports UNB. This year’s doodle features letter-shaped balloons attached to a gift box. Tapping plays a YouTube video that…
Abrar Hussain: Uber Technologies Inc will pay $148 million for failing to disclose a massive data breach in 2016, marking a costly resolution to one of the biggest legal tangles the ride-hailing company has suffered. The settlement with 50 US states and Washington, DC brings closure to one of several high-stakes legal battles Uber is…
UNB Two non-commissioned officers of Bangladesh Navy were killed and six others injured in a cannonball explosion during a test firing at a ship in the Bay of Bengal in Chattogram on Thursday. Official sources said the cannonball exploded in the ship around 3:00pm during a naval exercise. The identities of the victims could not…
BSS: Grameenphone, Telenor Group and UNICEF have jointly taken a safe internet outreach programme in schools nationwide aiming to create awareness among children about safer internet environment, reports Daily Sun. The programme has been specially designed to engage and empower 4 lakh children aged between 11 and 16 years and sensitise 50,000 parents, guardians and…
Julian Francis/BDnews24 Having been responsible, in 1971, for the humanitarian needs of about 600,000 Bangladeshi refugees, in over 50 Oxfam-supported refugee camps in all the States bordering India and Bangladesh and having visited the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Cox’s Bazar District in 2017, I am often asked about my extensive feelings and how I see…
Jorge G. Castañeda/Project Syndicate Brazil’s upcoming presidential election – its ninth since the restoration of democracy in 1985 – will take place against a bleak background, and not just because the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was recently destroyed in a fire, or even because the economic recovery is faltering. With myriad judicial and…
Desk Report : Mission heads of the European Union (EU) member states, the EU delegation, and chiefs of Norway and Switzerland missions have reiterated their concerns over several provisions of the Digital Security Act, reports the financial express. “We reiterate our concerns around several provisions of the Digital Security Act which unduly restrict the freedom…
M Humayun Kabir: Adultery is not a crime even though, “without a shadow of doubt”, it can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court of India said. It has scrapped a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as “property”. “A man having sexual intercourse with a…
Desk Report A grocer bought his freedom for Tk 1 lakh, a day after his abduction in Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila, reports Daily Star. On Tuesday, armed criminals kidnapped Mohammad Tarek, 26, son of Kabir Ahmed of Bhaditola area, and demanded Tk 5 lakh as ransom. Kabir said after failing to get cooperation from local…
Wionews A long-lost warship has been discovered off the coast of China after an extensive hunt to track down relics from a naval battle fought more than a century ago, the media reported. An archeological team had been searching for several years before it stumbled across a golden wooden name plaque bearing the name Jingyuan,…